For fame whose custom is to have a care
- DMI number:
- 14731
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- For fame whose custom is to have a care
- Last Line:
- And weary is of those who live too long
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Fame
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Poem to the King's Most Sacred Majesty ('Though poets mighty king such priests have been'). Works (1673): 260-271.
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.268
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. To the king's most sacred majesty.
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